Entrepreneur uses herding as a goat-to weed control

Vince Thomas never dreamed of being the goat guy. But with more than 100 goats under his care — animals that are used for his weed- and fuels-abatement business, Goat Grazers — Thomas undeniably is a goatherder. Thomas founded Goat Grazers two years ago after watching how quickly a few goats cleared weeds on his property in Spanish Springs. “Every year I would get my piles ready to burn, and one day I looked around and there was nothing to burn,” Thomas says. “I said, ‘Maybe there is something to this.’ “This was not my plan, but I am glad …